Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 11/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art glossy paper. Fine art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached there. A numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back.
Agathe Toman, artist, has been listed at Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious school of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Settled today in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering echo to her own experiences.

Her drawings, executed with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs distress with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, reminiscences of a perfect weightlessness, which accompanied our beginning.
Hundreds of her poems pace her universe with lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" is published in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has been pursuing for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate very deep psychological dimensions into her art, which is infused with new depths.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health, the environment, and education. These axes of reflection are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity and personality.

Her work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking her notable impact in the field of contemporary art.

Jacqui Ottoman continues to fascinate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window into the complexity of human experience as she perceives it and transforms it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep links between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question how they function in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and imperceptible, that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection and opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with brightness, where blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inward aspects not yet revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse it with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This intensely compressed, subtly teased, unspeakable intensity that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decisively unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction; my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of me.
I say that my creations are "materializations of psychic states," human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations that my works create in the viewer. It is two sensitivities meeting, not two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

The viewer becomes, in turn, a creator, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

I guide a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now invites themselves, these are psychic resonances that agree and harmonize in a single symphony; a dialogue begins to set in, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of one’s soul emerges, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo, so that words resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is blocked psychically, or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events or certain thoughts but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.

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